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Here’s a simple tip that may just keep you from pulling out your hair when trying to export from Lightroom 2.+ and stack the copy back with the source photo.

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Last week I tried to demystify the import process, so it seems fitting to do the same with the export process. Part of what confuses people are the words Import and Export as it implies that your photos are going in and then out of Lightroom, but in reality it is …

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Here’s one of those little things that seems to be tripping up a number of Lightroom 1 users who have upgraded to Lightroom 2.
In Lightroom 1, you can expand the Keywording panel and start typing a keyword into the big keyword tag field. As soon as you start typing, Lightroom …

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There is a small and little used command in Lightroom’s Folders panel that can make your life simpler in the long run.

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There are some significant bug fixes in this update. Most notably:
    * A memory leak could cause Lightroom to crash while attempting to process files with local adjustments.
    * Attempting to undo(CTRL-Z) a single step in Lightroom 2.2 on Windows could cause a series of previous actions to be undone. 
You …

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Red eye, the result of the light from the flash reflecting off the back of the retina, is not a phenomenon that is new to digital photography. It most commonly occurs when using a camera with a pop-up flash directly over the lens. While it is always best if it …

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I was very excited to find I had gotten my first review for Lightroom 2 for Dummies on Amazon, and I was even more excited to find it was so positive! Don’t just take my word for it though … you can read the review for yourself:
Best “Dummies” …

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Even if you only shoot raw the reality is that we all still have a lot of rendered files on our systems too. What are rendered files? These are the photos rendered in pixels as opposed to the raw capture data produced by our cameras. Lightroom can work with 3 …

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Another significant yet subtle improvement in Lightroom 2 is the means to reconnect missing and offline folders and photos. While preventing your photos from being inadvertently disconnected from the Lightroom catalog is still just as important as it was in Lightroom 1, it’s good to know there are tools to help you get things back in order if you find yourself looking at a catalog full of question marks.

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Lightroom is often referred to as a “metadata editor,” meaning that the work you do in Lightroom isn’t applied to the pixels in the source photo, but rather is saved as a set of metadata instructions (inside the catalog file) that are only applied to copies of the source photo during any type of output. Everything you do inside Lightroom, from adding keywords to making tonal adjustments, is recorded into Lightroom’s catalog file.